Can OKC Thunder win title in 2024? Also: Lakers struggles; First Impressions of TOR/NYK deal

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Sam Vecenie

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4.6 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Bryce Simon is here and we're going to talk about five topics across the NBA/NBA Draft today. -First, OKC Thunder. After beating Boston, Denver and Minnesota in the last 10 days, can they just straight up win the NBA title in 2024? -The LA Lakers; What's up with them? How are they 17-17 with LeBron playing extremely well, AD having only missed three games? -First Impressions of the OG Anunoby/Immanuel Quickley/RJ Barrett deal -NBA Draft Prospect of the Week! Jared McCain from Duke! CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 5:06 OKC Thunder deep dive, why are they successful? 28:15 Potential Thunder upgrades at the deadline? 35:00 Can OKC win the title in 2024? 40:32 Wendell Carter, Goga Bitadze and the Orlando Magic big situation 48:00 LA Lakers are 17-17, what's going on? 1:10:35 First Impressions of Knicks with Anunoby? 1:18:09 First Impressions of Raptors with Barrett and Quickley? 1:23:55 Jared McCain, NBA Draft Prospect of the Week 1:39:27 Tyrese Proctor and Kyle Filipowski takes 1:45:15 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.1	hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.
0:38.0	I'm your host San Vucini.
0:38.9	Today, Bryce Simon is in the building.
0:41.6	Bryce and I are going to dive deep into a number of different NBA topics.
0:46.2	We're going to start with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:48.5	The Oklahoma City Thunder are one of the best teams in the NBA,
0:51.6	and we're wondering whether or not they can actually win the title this season,
0:54.9	way ahead of schedule from what everybody is expecting.
0:58.2	They played an incredible game last night against the Boston Celtics
1:02.2	that I want to talk to you about in detail.
1:05.2	Because holy, maybe, I don't know if it's the best played basketball game
1:10.4	I've seen all year, but some of the ways that they got creative offensively against one another, some of the matchup stuff specifically that both those teams tried to exploit.
1:20.1	I thought it was awesome and I thought it was so, so fun to watch.
1:23.1	Then we're going to talk about the Lakers.
1:24.6	The Lakers are currently 17 and 17, despite the fact that LeBron James has played at a top 10 player in the NBA level.
1:31.5	Anthony Davis, frankly, has played at a top 10 to 15 player in the NBA level.
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